Embodied Creativity Process

EMBODIED CREATIVITY PROCESS

The concept offers a structure to stimulate personal creativity by using

·      embodied movement (meditation, mindfulness, groundedness, awareness)

·      exploring materials (ashes and tracing paper) in the stairwell space and then

·      frame through new media (internet/smart phones) this personal creativity as a channel for this creative experience.

The Workshop:

In devising the Embodied Creativity Process Maria Kerin combines 3 different creative disciplines: Fine Art, Contemporary Dance, and New Media, devised from her 14 years of a professional trans-disciplinary art/dance practice. Maria uses a specific combination of these areas as tools to access embodied creativity, essentially the source of our individual creativity. By offering specific skills and techniques in embodied movement, art making and new media blended together, these tools support the making of art specific to each individual.

The Process: By bringing awareness into the body as a creative organ itself, as well as the mind, and linking the inner being with the outside space, this supports the person exploring and responding creatively. This is trust based on inner listening, a fully experiential approach bringing us beyond our habits and cultural constraints.

This requires relaxed concentration and inner silence, guided listening and gentle movement. Awareness activates the sense of deep presence through grounding the body. This focus and sense of self supports people in the “unknown space”.

Ashes and tracing paper will be used for these sessions for creative mark-making.

The outcome is then framed by new media that stimulates and reveals its own process of creativity, unique to each participant, be it smart phones recording the image/space/movement, documented for internet web sites or blogs or even live internet coverage directly to an audience.

Furthermore in this form of intersection working with other artists, where we decide to meet others, the outcome is not collaborative but offers a chance to co-align, each retaining personal autonomy and independence, welcoming an unknown outcome.

Workshops are available to experienced creative individuals and for groups (visual arts and performance artists, 3rd level students, dancers, musicians, choreographers and film-makers). Please wear loose clothing and bring some kind of recording devise - mobile phones, sound recorder, laptop and video cameras. Movement is minimal, open mind essential. All welcome.